Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forecasts are given for a height of 10m or 33ft above ground . |
| 2 | From Lovell 's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons . |
| 3 | The form of T k has been given for a variety of cosmological models in refs 19 , 28 . |
| 4 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 5 | Such regions are designated for a period of five years and are specifically defined to be those areas ( NUTS Level II ) where per capita GDP in PPSs is less than 75 per cent of the Community average . |
| 6 | Nineteenth century ephemera , including table games , playing cards , a hieroglyphic card ( one where small pictures are substituted for a number of letters or syllables ) and ( centre ) a ‘ zoetrope ’ or ‘ wheel of life ’ , an early motion-picture toy . |
| 7 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 8 | OMON troops had been blamed for a series of attacks on over 20 Baltic border posts over the previous few months . |
| 9 | In Brighton , where the system has been installed for a number of years , one in four homes is on the cablephone network . |
| 10 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 11 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 12 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 13 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |
| 14 | Moreover , so-called inequities have been addressed for a number of years . |
| 15 | It was not in any way grand : simply a solid nineteenth-century country residence with a small courtyard and a pleasant garden sloping down to the river ; the sort of place , Celia reckoned , which had been built for a man of some substance : a prosperous merchant or , more likely , a gentleman farmer , the land having been incorporated into the nearby estate . |
| 16 | Sanding can be done yourself as long as you wear a medical mask ( from chemists or drug stores ) and are prepared for a lot of noise . |
| 17 | More often , however , hyperdocuments are prepared for a number of different readers , possibly distributed over different sites , and working in different hardware/software environments . |
| 18 | Since most theses are lent for a period of one month , it could be that most borrowers are able to digest the contents of theses within this period , but , due to the widespread availability of photocopiers , it is suspected that the regulations on thesis copying are frequently broken . |
| 19 | To multiply human cells in tissue culture on the scale necessary presented considerable difficulties , but enough material has been made for a variety of clinical trials against many different viral diseases and certain cancers . |
| 20 | Demands have been made for a withdrawal of the invitation to controversial historian , David Irving , to address student societies in Dublin University , University College Dublin and University College Cork . |
| 21 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 22 | Such claims have been made for a succession of international exhibitions since the first , the Great Exhibition , opened in Hyde Park in 1851 . |
| 23 | The conclusions that they draw are that theses have been written for a variety of purposes , which have changed over the years , and which vary according to customs in different countries . |
| 24 | ‘ This is particularly true in the area of the trial , which is close to Peldon , where resistant strains of blackgrass have been seen for a number of years . |
| 25 | Today the unqualified term has been appropriated for a form of democracy which is , at best , indirect . |
| 26 | Although ‘ mixed ’ marriages between people of different races or cultures are made for a variety of reasons , conscious and unconscious , some are necessitated by the need to have constant reassurance of difference : for example , a skin of another colour . |
| 27 | You 're summoned for a number of offences the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road namely Acrington Road Worley , used a mechanically propelled vehicle when there was no excise licence in force . |
| 28 | Different foams are sold for a variety of plants and uses . |
| 29 | They are used for a bit of horticulture and , increasingly , for a bit of ’ horseyculture ’ — and the horses do not half make a mess on the ground ! |
| 30 | Banks are used for a variety of frauds as well as money-laundering . |